Challenge Swap - Floral

Hello!
I hope y'all are doing well and keeping healthy

during this trying time.

Our most recent Challenge Swap in my 

online crafting group was "floral"

Today I'm showing you what I sent to my friend,

Lisa, for this swap.

I happened to see THIS TUTORIAL from 

Almut Olsson

on YouTube and knew right away this is what I

wanted to make. This "wallet" was made from a 

brown paper lunch bag.

It's a cute little wallet that can be used for

any number of things.

The paper I used to cover the wallet is mulberry paper

that I colored with alcohol ink and shaving cream.

When opened, there are 2 little pockets.

I stamped some small floral images as well as

fussy cutting others and included them in the wallet.

I also stamped some of my favorite floral images for her.

I colored some of them and left others uncolored.

The lower right flower was stamped onto white card

stock as well as onto the same paper as I used to cover the

wallet, then fussy cut it and adhered it to the card stock image.

I think it's always nice to have some different images 

to work with.  Lisa loved her swap gift.

Now on to our next one and that theme is 

Friendship.

Thanks for stopping by today to see what I'm up to.

I hope you are inspired in some way.

Until next time

Happy Crafting!

Shaving Cream and Alcohol Ink

Hi All!

Today I'm going to show you the process I used to 

make some fun paper for crafting.

I use them for backgrounds for cards, scrapbook layouts

elements for cards and anything else that strikes my fancy.

I got a inexpensive aluminum sheet, shaving cream and

a spatula from the Dollar Tree.

I put a good amount of the shaving cream on the 

aluminum sheet.

Using the spatula, I smoothed it out.

I then dropped Alcohol Inks onto the shaving cream

and used a plastic knife to run through the ink to spread it 

a little bit.

It's hard to see the paper here, I used Deli paper

for this print.  I just laid the paper on top of the

shaving cream and smoothed it over the surface,

to be sure it was in contact with the ink.

Any type of paper can be used for this,

For this session, I used deli paper, white card stock,

white mulberry paper and colored mulberry paper.

When I picked up the paper, I scrapped off the

extra cream and left the paper to dry.

You never know what your print will look like.

This one is very subtle.

I added a bit more ink,

ran the knife through it again,

and made another print,

this time on plain white card stock.

When I scrap off the extra shaving cream from the

paper, I put it at the side of the pan,

it can be used again.

I smoothed out the shaving cream and added more 

inks to make other prints.

As you lift the papers off, the colors meld more each time.

I love the way these papers turn out.

When I wanted to change the colors, I mixed what I had

in the pan and ended up with a light color.

I then added new colors and went on making prints.

This is a different pan of shaving cream,

that I was playing with, but I found it works better on

a flat one like the one above.

Depending on how much ink is in the shaving cream and the

color of it, you may get some over all color on your 

papers, but with some colors that didn't show up at all.

It's all an adventure where you never know what you'll end up with.

Here are some of the pieces I ended up with.

I did quite a few on plain card stock.

some on deli paper

In this one above, you can see a light pink in the

background.  For this one, I had mixed the shaving 

cream and it ended up pinkish, I added other colors to it

and when I pulled them, they had absorbed a bit of the 

pink from the mixed in ink.
Most of the time the mixed in color didn't show up,

but for this it did.

This is one of my favorite pieces and I've already used

it for a project.

I tried yellow mulberry paper

and orange

and green.

These next two were done on a white mulberry

paper that doesn't have a lot of fiber that is noticeable

Thanks for stopping in today.

I had a lot of fun making these background pieces

and I hope you'll give it a try too.
See you soon.

Until then,

think outside the box!